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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

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SERC In The News

SERC in the News

Is Climate Change Causing Sharks To Bite Humans? Metro Thinks So

Mar 11, 2021

WAMU 88.5
Smithsonian study finds more bad news about climate change: skimpier Chesapeake Bay oysters

Mar 6, 2021

Capital Gazette/Baltimore Sun
Smugglers tried to bring 3,700 invasive crabs through the Port of Cincinnati

Jan 23, 2021

USA Today
Is It Better to Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow Naturally?

Oct 31, 2020

WIRED
‘Fish lollies’ capture predator activity, revealing how global marine food webs change with climate

Oct 27, 2020

Mirage News
Backyard dueling plant experiment sparks hope for future remote field opportunities at SERC in Edgewater

Oct 9, 2020

Capital Gazette
Fifty Things We've Learned About the Earth Since the First Earth Day

Apr 22, 2020
How many sharks are off the Outer Banks? We might not know about as many because of the coronavirus

Apr 20, 2020

The Virginian-Pilot
At Edgewater Smithsonian campus, coronavirus pandemic could stunt climate change research

Mar 31, 2020

Capital Gazette/Baltimore Sun
Edgewater Lab Warns of Smuggled Invasive Mitten Crabs

Jan 28, 2020

Chesapeake Bay Magazine

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